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sentimental teen fiction
"... serious yet heartwarming and thoroughly entertaining...." Midwest Book Review

Sentimental story is about
some things that are important
not only to a couple of young Balona women, but to all of us:
Finding someone to love and be loved by,
living and dying, being betrayed,
losing and gaining self-esteem,
discovering an unexpected friend.

Just “ChickLit?” Nah, it's for everyone with heart!

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ISBN 9780976547914
LOC 2006906403
5.5 X 8.5 in.,192pp.
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Balonans see community college journalism sophomore Patella and graduating high school senior Claire as spectacularly different from each other. Patella is poor and neither pretty nor bright. Claire is rich, exceptionally intelligent, artistically talented, and beautiful. Patella feels and is hot; Claire thinks and is cool. But the two find the beginnings of friendship with each other despite their differences. The story is presented in the two voices.

notes CLICK if it's your pleasure to hear one of Claire's favorites, Pachelbel's Canon in D !

flower column for funny teen fiction

Here is a passage from BUDS. Patella describes another one of those "Mom Quizzes/Counsels Daughter" conversations:

   About my recent experience with the law that had put me in a grouchy mood, my own mom gave me a funny look the other night. "Where you been at night lately?" she went, looking also sort of suspicious, not unusual for my mom--or any math teacher.